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||1805: Robert FitzRoy born ... captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand ... "forecasts". Pic. | ||1805: Robert FitzRoy born ... captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand ... "forecasts". Pic. | ||
||1817: Karl Christoph Vogt dies ... scientist, philosopher and politician | ||1817: Karl Christoph Vogt dies ... scientist, philosopher and politician. Pic. | ||
||1820: William John Macquorn Rankine born ... physicist, mathematician, and engineer. | ||1820: William John Macquorn Rankine born ... physicist, mathematician, and engineer. | ||
||1826: Joseph Louis Proust dies ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions. | ||1826: Joseph Louis Proust dies ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+Louis+Proust | ||
||1826: Thomas Stamford Raffles dies ... British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore. | ||1826: Thomas Stamford Raffles dies ... British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore. | ||
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1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
1939: "The Safe-Cracker was not a math crime," says art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."
1942: Mathematician Oskar Bolza dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.
2009: Discovery of the Staffordshire hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
2017: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral purchased for an undisclosed sum by "an eminent Gnomon algorithm theorist from New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: Signed first edition of Pin Man #1 stolen from the Louvre in a daring daylight robbery allegedly masterminded by Baron Zersetzung.